16 Jun
2001
16 Jun
'01
4:26 p.m.
Cameron has (privately?) expressed an interest in not
having to set up
a user and password for each of his UUCP peers. To the best of my
knowledge, the only UUCP implementation that permits this (by way of
supporting its own user/password table that is independent of
/etc/passwd) is Taylor UUCP. Or is it possible (and safe) to set up
HDB UUCP such that all UUCP peer login names map to the same uid/gid?
Not a private wish -- I really would prefer to have uucp do its own auth.
I suspect other sysadmins would also be interested -- both convenience
and security.
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